de Brakke Grond

Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond

A Show About a Show that Already Happened
SCENERY 2 (A RECONSTRUCTION)

Video films by Andrew & Douglas Fisher (UK), Kris Gevers (BE), Takako Hamano (JP), Peter Lemmens (BE), Lucie Renneboog (BE), Mai Ueda (JP), Kris Vleeschouwer (BE), Jethro Volders (BE), Luming Zhu (PRC)

Friday, 9th December, 2005 until Sunday, 22nd January, 2006

Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond
Nes 45
1012 KD Amsterdam
http://www.brakkegrond.nl

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Scenery 2 (a Reconstruction) is the 2nd exhibition in a series of art projects presented under the title Scenery and curated by Jan Van Woensel.

The Expo Hall of ‘de Brakke Grond’ houses a copy of a squatted house in Antwerp. In June, 2004, Jan Van Woensel organized the exhibition Scenery 1 (Proposing a Space Between) in that property. The central theme of that project was the interaction between space, the works of art and the audience. Not only the works of art, but also the entire exhibition space was measured and represented in drawings, maps and a scale model.

These replica’s and the in situ made video films of the works of art form the starting point of the of the exhibition Scenery 2 (a Reconstruction).

The result is a large panel consisting of semi-transparent screens upon which video films of the works of art are being projected. This construction resembles a décor, a film set or a large scale model of the squatted property.

Lecture: 9^th December, 2005, 2pm-5pm followed by the exhibition opening.

The opening of the exhibition will begin with a lecture, which was organized in collaboration with W139. Guy Bovyn (arts critic, Ghent) will talk about the exhibition being a repeat of the same with a small difference. Papo Colo (artist/curator and founder of Exit Art in New York) will explain his own perspective as a cultural producer and talk about his first Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction (2003). Jan Van Woensel, curator of the Scenery Trilogy, will present and explain the scope of the exhibition by means of an extensive reconstruction of his work process.

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